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The Official Lanyard Thread

Kmikaz3 said:
It has been quite a while since i made a lanyard 😇


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yea... tailless looks much more better imo

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Nice looking Shiro and lanyard! Tail less is much better.
 
Howdy all. I'm looking for recommendations. Need a couple of small custom lanyards made up.
If this is in the wrong place hopefully the mods wil move it.
TIA, Ray
 
Welcome to the knotty section of the forum
;)
There’s a lot of people that can help you out but it’s something that you can easily master yourself too
Browse through this thread and see which ones you are liking and go from there.
As for mine they are made on the knife so they are not things that you would put on after they were tied, as I don’t remove the inner strands

Here's one a friend sent his folder for me to check out and while it was visiting, I created a nice lanyard for it, a whipping knot near the handle, then a Diamond knot next to a Viking Rune bead and three snake knots ending with a small bead that is held on by means of melting the ends of the paracord so it doesn't fall off.

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Gary W. Graley said:
Welcome to the knotty section of the forum
;)
There’s a lot of people that can help you out but it’s something that you can easily master yourself too
Browse through this thread and see which ones you are liking and go from there.
As for mine they are made on the knife so they are not things that you would put on after they were tied, as I don’t remove the inner strands

Here's one a friend sent his folder for me to check out and while it was visiting, I created a nice lanyard for it, a whipping knot near the handle, then a Diamond knot next to a Viking Rune bead and three snake knots ending with a small bead that is held on by means of melting the ends of the paracord so it doesn't fall off.

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Thanks Gary. Would really prefer to just sub it out right now. Arthritis has made these little manipulations a real pain.
No more brain surgery. 😁
 
Makes sense, that can be troublesome for sure, still stands to check those in this thread for starters to see if someone here makes the style you are interested in and contact them with your requests.

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Got in some nice paracord, 700 pound stuff, tight outer casing with 7 inner strands each having 3 strands. This one is the Bronze and has a great classic look to it, just got in some burgundy which is also very pretty.
Same setup, whipping knot near the handle, diamond knot, Viking Rune and three snake knots with a light bead floating on the end pieces, the melted ends are large enough to help keep it in place but if need to you can pull the bead off.

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Finally tied up a tail on my 0640. I've been a bit ambivalent about this knife as I'm not the biggest ZT fan and have kept just a couple models of the several I've owned over the years and I've had no experience whatsoever with Emersons. The clip and thumb disk mods helped a lot, along with getting the knife pre-anodized and already Micarta-scaled from USA Made Blade. I'm warming to this one bit-by-bit each time I carry it as it does have a number of features that appeal to me.

Anyway, I remembered I had this bead from one of the makers I like over at the Artsy-Craftsy site and chose 550 King Tut for contrast over a nice dark green cord I have. There's no lanyard hole and I had to gut 4 inners strands to pull the cord into the recess of the back dumbbell stand-off as both spacers are wicked. close to the blade edge when closed. I don't much like the look of gutted cord and remove strands only when I absolutely must. I tried a couple crown and diamond knots but they were pretty much impossible to get symmetrical and balanced with the half-empty shell, so I went with a couple of diamonds which were much easier to leave a little loose and shapely while balancing the size of the bead.

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I've been tempted by that 640 myself, but always worry it's too thick behind the edge.

As to the lanyard, I agree gutting the threads makes the tying not so nice. On my Maxace Goliath 2 I have the same situation, even my thinnest cordage was too thick as the edge would still strike it.
SO, I had to operate which wasn't easy nor fun. I wiggled my way into the inside at a spot about middle of the length of cord. Then using carefully whittled down bamboo skewers I used that to dig out the inner strands. Once I had them pulled up and out, I cut off the loop and pulled the shell back out again.
This left a hollow section at the mid point of my paracord while leaving the rest on either side full of the inner strands so I could tie the knots.
But you have to be careful to KEEP that 'hollow' section around the standoff as you are tying the knot, otherwise you lose all that you were trying to do.

Here you can see the hollow portion conforming to the hour glass standoff and allowing the blade to close without cutting the jacket

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Gary W. Graley Gary W. Graley , I've read about that technique before for gutting just a central portion of the cord--was it here by you or maybe Kmikaz3 Kmikaz3 ?--but didn't feel motivated enough to try it this time around. If I decide to change cord and go with the green after all, maybe I'll give it a shot. I don't mind when the blade just touches the cord. I've got a few knives like that, even slight cuts don't make much of difference, and none have either gotten close to failing or even raggedy enough to bother me. The thing with this one was that the cord stopped the blade from fully engaging the stop pin.

As to the TBE of the 640, it is a bit on the heavy side there but I noted that when buying and figure I might go for a re-grind if I really like the knife and decide to keep it. On the other hand, while not particularly slicey it came wicked sharp with great grinds and an absolutely awesome point. It's certainly a more-than-adequate general purpose blade.
 
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